My weddings going to be cancelled by a rat virus isn’t it!

[EyUpNowThenLass]

We tried to get married in May 2020 and after trying for 18 months gave up. Lost loads of money in deposits. We are now finally in the position to be able to afford to get married again and we’re just about to book it for October.

It feels like history is repeating itself with recent news, and the world wants me to be a spinster. Is it going to happen again? I just don’t want to get my hopes up yet again for the same thing to happen!

It actually cost very little to get married. It's the production costs that add up. If you really want to get MARRIED, it's easy and quick and very satisfying. If it's the wedding you want, things can always come up to put obstacles in the way, so be well insured and hope for the best.

Maybe try getting married and then, later, have a lovely reception, as fancy as you can afford and make sure it's well insured. Then, at least, the important part is already done.

This!
My grandparents tell me they were married within 4 weeks of meeting each other! They’ve been married more than 50 years now.

I think you are overreacting a bit. This is just a few cases not a pandemic. Things will be fine by October.

Just bring it forward and do a small quick wedding

No, it won't. You are massively overreacting.

If you've been trying for six years to get married then you haven't been trying very hard. Just go to the registry office and do it.

You can wear a wedding dress to a registry office too you know, then get a taxi to the pub/restaurant and have a party there.

You realise you could pop down the registry office and be married in fairly short order? How on earth have you been trying but not managed for six years? You could probably be married within six weeks if you really wanted to!

Bingo! They’re clearly not that fussed about getting married. They could’ve even done the registry bit or a super small church wedding then saved up for a big reception later.

I still take precautions against covid, however I am not massively concerned currently about hantavirus (although feel sorry for those involved and think the public health response could be better 😬).
I think your wedding will be able to go ahead fine, especially if it's in this country.
I do however urge people to wear a quality mask for international travel, on crowded public transport and in healthcare settings (especially a&e, doctors surgeries etc). I think that's sensible regardless of hantavirus but hearing how this has taken everyone by surprise, if more people were doing this as standard perhaps we would have a better grip on it.

Except Hantavirus isn't airborne. It's quite hard to catch.

You sound insufferable.

Hantavirus, so far at least, doesn't spread that easily.

If a strain develops that spreads more easily, it won't be like Covid, it will be like the Black Death. It has a 40% fatality rate. Dead people don't worry about weddings.

*1400s

It’s probably quite a lot of that going on in Club and pubs in Soho

Spinster here mentioning that the single life is pretty good, actually, so fear not! Perhaps you could book a registry office wedding and spend the money on a lovely honeymoon?

The latest strain is being spread person to person. That's why people are more concerned now.

The UK government says it's an airborne high-consequence infectious disease.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/high-consequence-infectious-diseases-hcid#list-of-high-consequence-infectious-diseases

Scroll past the contact ones to get to the airborne ones.

Right now I don't think your wedding is looking likely to be cancelled but you'd be wise not to assume it absolutely can't be. I agree with those who've said just get married! Then schedule a party for whenever, with vows again, whatever you want, but don't keep putting off getting married.

Your wedding won’t be cancelled by hantavirus.

But it IS concerning how easily it seems to be spreading, relative to previous understanding of it being very rare to transmit human to human and then only in very close proximity.

Maybe everyone on the ship is into swinging.

I think you are unhinged

That's weird. Did she just fancy a new surname? She surely could have done that at any point from the age of 18?

I’d probably stop listening to the bullshit news and start living. I did that in 2020. Stop living in fear!! It’s highly unlikely, book it and do it and switch off the bloody TV!!

Women really are letting men take the piss!

Having a man’s child and then changing your name to his without even getting the legal benefits of marriage is wild lol I mean they could always do a registry wedding or a very small wedding if they were really bothered.

I bets the children have his surname too lol which is probably why she changed hers too.

You are wrong. It sadly is airborne.

Not unreasonable but highly dramatic 🙄

Not unreasonable but highly dramatic 🙄

Not unreasonable but highly dramatic 🙄

There's much to be said in favour of being a spinster ... not least that (like me) you will never have to go through the bother of divorce.